Sustainable SHTF Preparedness
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- It's a thing. Here's some advice on maintaining what often feels like a slog, long term in regards to SHTF preparedness.
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The Referenced Team video got delayed for reasons.
Looking forward to it, that’s the one topic I’ve been wanting to learn more about
I was gonna be mad, but since the reason it got delayed was "for reasons" I completely understand.
Will watch it when it comes out.
⌚️ Evropa the lašt battle
Looking forward to it - probably one of the things I understand the least about, and likely one of the most important topics.
All truth in this video. Well said! It's a subject that's not discussed enough.
I've been prepping for Mad-Max my whole life... 😁
Good realistic talk. We need more of it in this community.
Love your channel too.
2nd that
Common sense always sounds good.
Agreed! I need to watch this video on a regular basis. Totally guilty of doing a lot of stuff mentioned 😂
Nice to see you in the wild
I want to stick my face in a blender every time Armed Scholar uploads his 4th clickbait video of the day. And the 3 videos before that.
it's almost like I was referencing exactly that, haha.
I will send UA-cam a legit gift basket if they stop putting that shit in my recommended feed
@@herpicusmc.derpington2878tap the three dots on the video and select don’t recommend channel. I did this for him months ago
His thumbnails are total clickbait. It is hard to determine what is a new decision and what is clickbait.
That dude pissed me off so much with his clickbait that I've almost entirely stopped watching him.
Was feeling pretty burned out, but glad to hear everyone struggles with it
You want a SHTF situation? it's the earth's poles shifting, it happens every once in awhile and were due. A gun isn't going to stop a wave 1000ft tall. Nor will it stop an ice age, so you have nothing to worry about. You will die. Period. Your burnt out from being Midwestern and confused.
I'm especially burned out on the endless guntube hype cycle. BF is literally the only guntube channel I haven't told YT to stop recommending.
⌚️ Evropa the last battlé
@@budget-88 Get outta here with that bullshit.
BURNED-OUT? How hard is it to buy another gun, can of beans, make friends with a reloader, buy another gun, stockpile Gatorade, repeat
Prepping gives you peace of mind for any realistic disaster, just to make you anxious about the even bigger disaster, like tripple nuked earthquakes ending society.
Once you have a plan, some gear, some food and other supplies at home, a bag ready to go should you need to, it's important to make it a sustainable and healthy lifestyle. Buy some ikea storage shelves and keep all your canned food in a rotation instead of constant panic and stockpiling. That kind of sustainability.
Agreed, used a bit of my preps during the nearly 2 months of electricity loss here in NW Arkansas in January from a combination ice and snow storm. Burned firewood and cooked on the fireplace insert. So generally no troubles. One big ammo can 20mm? Iirc served as a freezer when buried in snow and ice in the backyard.
Use that big lump of fatty tissue between your ears and you'll usually do okay.
Prep hard, write representatives hard, vote harder, and donate to corperations that probably are in on it hard like goa, fpc. Before people know it, the good little policy abiding citizens are going to get a license to think free when ai begins scanning thoughts. But knowing the herd they will obey just like all the other stuff now.
@@techti8792what
You might of said this in one of your other videos, but no prep is ever worth going into major debt for. Preparedness is important, but if you have student loans, credit cards, or other loans you need to take care of that stuff first. Then worry about paying off your home or buying a house and set aside a percentage of your income to prepping splitting between all the categories. Its a process, you learn through trial and error that some things will work better for you than others. All the preps in the world will not mean shit if your severely overweight and unhealthy. In the words of Garand Thumb, "Get fit or Die".
Get as far away from the jewish banks as possible
Most valuable prep arguably is physic strength and fitness. 2nd place may be a hard skill that is extremely helpful and can be used to barter with. That's why I initially became an EMT and have been a first responder for 7 years. Being calm and thinking through stressful situations is very helpful as is keeping people alive.
“Being useful” it’s a good idea to have something that can’t be stolen/robbed from you. Knowledge is power. Not to add more paranoia to a group that probably has enough paranoids within it. But we all know the joke, you don’t have to be faster than a bear, you just have to be faster than your buddy. And then even further where they hurt their buddies leg. Well, just saying, your buddy is in the best position to stab you in the back and take everything you’ve stocked up; but that’s not advantageous for him if you also have skills that he can’t just take. Kinda shtty to think about, but with this gun tube push for people to network and get groups, it seems important to consider.
Personal SHTF happens all the time. My family had been stocking up food for a while and when our business had a few extremely hard months and our new baby arrived it was such a blessing to have all the stocked up food and a emergency fund to pull from. God is very good to us and provides us with all we need. Put Jesus first and the rest will fall into place.
Honestly, I think you nail it at the end. Half the problem is people selling bullshit and then the endless arguments about it. It got to the point for me about a year ago that I don't even shoot some places anymore because I can't take the level of nonsense attached to that place. I'm not going to drop a bunch of coin on ammo to go listen to people complain or rant or scream that people aren't doing THE [NINJA] THING. I can do that, basically for free, with talk radio and just turn it off when I'm annoyed.
I honestly just stopped taking a lot of the people in the "prepping" community seriously about 10 years back when I watched an obese dude in his mid 50's, in person, try to tell a freshly separated JTAC guy how radios work "in real life".
If you're all about T. Rex Arms and [Prepper Channel] as being gospel, you're going to end up deep in debt with a bunch of dumb shit you don't really know how to use. But hey, at least you can tell Lucas that you do carry "distracts" to bang the dudes you saw on your [totally secure and not at all a spy device you paid for to lose your security and autonomy] Ring doorbell that the prepper guy told you to get because it's so simple.
How dare you post this the last minute of my lunch break
wrecked.
I did so much prepping in the last 6-7 years that not only did I partially burn out on it, I hit what I can only describe as an "end point" where the only thing I can really do is stack things. More food, more ammo, more water, more gold, more meds... and my little house cannot hold it all and still function as a place to live when shit HASN'T hit the fan. I have decided that we're "good enough" on anything. Every now and then I may top some things off, get another crate of ammo, get some more #10 cans of freeze dried beef, whatever. We're good for several years on all fronts, and if shit ever gets so bad that we actually have to live off of our preps for more than a few weeks and/or use the defense tools, I'm comfortable rolling the dice that I've done enough to outlast the vast, vast majority of people, and do what I've always intended to do with my preps -- help people.
Sounds like you're set on preps. You got NVGs and train a lot?
@@boejiden1942 Yes to nods, and yes to training. Not nearly as much as the preparedness community online would like you to believe they do, but what I have decided to be "enough". To be frank, I made the call years ago that I am not willing to devote a huge amount of my time and resources to continual professional training in order to gain a small tactical edge when I'm already well ahead of the vast majority of people in that regard. Would I get smoked by a retired special forces guy, or the random fudd with a 30-06? Possibly! Am I going to lose sleep over that? Nope.
The way I see it there is a point where "good enough" is truly good enough, and I am not willing to severely degrade my present for the potential promise of a tiny edge in a future that may or may not even happen.
Next phase: Construction of your bunker with supplemental firing positions, grenade sumps, and hidden ventilation shafts.
@@LRRPFco52 lol CLOSE! Actually not really, but I am working on a way to get my rain catchment to end up in the basement instead of being visible outdoors. I'm in an inner city, my bug-in/defense strategy is to be as gray man as possible and that includes the house. I've even got solar that you can't see unless I'm actively using it to charge the system.
@@innercityprepperthat's a good way to look at it. I am slowly realizing that I am in the same situation. I tend to go overboard on everything I do and see that I am doing that with preps. Do I really need 15 BOBs for a family of 3. Lol its fun when your life and hobby jive together. But there is a point when it becomes a hindrance to a normal everyday life.
Guns/gear is a balance between a hobby and being useful for prepping. It’s very easy to lose sight of that balance and get caught in the minutia of the hobby aspect of things; I know I certainly do.
If we're being honest, what would be more useful for most of us? Buying a suppressor, or four 50 gallon water storage units for our families?
@@musicman1eandabut what’s more fun?
@@Jeffplsgo The suppressor is more fun, that's why I have that and don't have that much water yet 😅
BRUH YOU GOTTA TRAIN BRUH. YOUR RIFLE HAS TO BE CAPABLE OF PASSIVE AIMING BRUH. YOU NEED QUAD TOOOOOBZ BRUH OR YOU WON'T MAKE IT BRUH. YOU NEED TO BE AT THE RANGE TRAINING BRUH, TRAIN TRAIN TRAIN! YOU'LL MOST LIKELY NEVER USE THE TRAINING BUT TRAIN 24/7 365.
I'm kinda sick of the try hards obviously. 99.9% of civs will never use their pistol in a defensive situation let alone their rifles. SHTF is never going to happen THANK GOD. Everyone prepped for that kinda thing but no one(or very few people) prepped for a pandemic which was obviously far more likely. This entire "prepping" industry quite frankly relies on fear mongering. In fact, i've noticed that most of the conservative political movement relies on fear mongering now as do most GOP politicians now. BTW, I say this as a conservative.
I think its fun to train but its really not that important compared to practicing something like a trade skill. How many of us can weld? How many of us know how to replace a door on their house without a youtube video? Can you change your brakes on their vehicle? Do you know how to wire a new outlet in your home? Can you plant and properly maintain a decent sized garden?
Instead of training for a civil war or something we should probably just talk to each other and figure out why the country is so hyper partisan now. it's because both parties are fear mongering like crazy and social media puts people into echo chambers which then drive the groups in the echo chambers to fear and hate their fellow countrymen for some bullshit political reasons. People should spend less time online and more time out in the world living.
@@armorers_wrench I lost my situational awareness reading this and got killed in the streets ☹️
Man, this was right on the money. Getting out of the military coming into covid I got into this stuff hard core. Combat vet getting out after the better part of a decade and coming home to all the bs of 2020-2021 I guess I got a little obsessive with this stuff. And yeah, I bought a bunch of shit, sold some stuff and sorta settled on what I wanted/felt I needed...But then I started chasing after marginally better gear, getting into the weeds on optics, parts, plate, carriers, chest rigs, and all the little differences, and uses for each one. About 4 months ago I snapped out of it. Two realizations. One: none of the gear I had bought, replaced or upgraded had ever been used to the point of breakage or being truly worn out...So why the hell was I buying more stuff when I already have something bombproof that is still perfectly functional. Number two: if shtf truly and totally...would I be in my city apartment with a car ready to haul my years of tactical purchases, parts, guns etc to my family's place out in the country in classic bug out fashion...Or would I be caught up somewhere because work and school takes me away from home. Would I be able to even get to all that gear and kit I was stashing like it was the key to my very survival that would always be there for me? After those two realizations, I took to ebay to downsize my collection. Kept it to good quality, scalable, general purpose stuff, a few pew pews, and some spare parts. I'm not writing this off as hobby at all or losing interest, I just had to snap out of that feeling that not having the latest and greatest meant I was not doing something right. Easy to get sucked into the tactical minutia mindset. Now, I've been getting more into rucking again, camping, working out, etc. Not obsessing over this stuff has been sooo much healthier for me. Still have it, still gonna shoot and train, just broadening my horizons and saving money in the process. I could go on but I already wrote a damn novel.
Learning to garden is awesome, I rent a plot of land by where I live bc I can’t do it at home and have been learning to grow everything from seed. This is the first year that truly EVERYTHING I grew was grown from seed packs and all the squash zuccini ect was from seeds I saved from last years harvest. Not only is it an invaluable skill, but it calms the mind and soul as well as feeds the body. All my heirloom tomatoes are coming in this week. Looking forward to some AWESOME blts and making a few gallons of marinara from all my Roma tomatoes which lasts me to spring.
10/10 learning to grow you food is an awesome skills that not only rewards in mental clarity and calmness but also with the best rating things you’ll never find in the store.
@dothedewinme That is something my fiancé has really been getting into, and our apartment/balcony is all of the greenery. We've got another year on our lease before we can start house hunting (coincides perfectly with my graduation). Definitely looking into getting a few acres so we can garden, and have some animals (gonna start small obviously). Never did think to rent land in the mean time though. And I've been loving learning about gardening and developing a green thumb (not a good one per se). Low key a little jelly you've been able to make that much marinara with your gardening endeavors!
Been through the same stuff. Just happy that I've been financially responsible throughout the whole thing so I only have a few hundred dollars of regrettable purchases lol.
Feel very similar. Too many guns, not enough cardio, too much depression. What use was i gonna be if ahit did happen and how was i planning on helping my community if nothing happened?
You're on the money. Feel bad for any of the younger guys who don't take your advice to heart. If anyone enjoys snagging deals, following personalities, and moving around gear, then totally have at it, but like you said don't confuse that for being "prepared". It's possible to stay connected with gun social media, improve your abilities realistically each year, see someone pushing a trend and just scroll past and be like "I'm good, I already have what I need. How about I learn something new today".
I had some friends over a few weekends ago, we set up some targets, ran some drills, and had some friendly competition. Even as just some "good old boys" who are not serious trainers or preppers, it was amazing to see the improvement on the same day, and the camaraderie was a great experience. Get some cardboard boxes and your 10/22, see who can run a lap of the house and hit all three boxes fastest at your next BBQ. You will have plenty of stories to tell the next day, new areas to train, and a fun evening, all for about $10 worth of ammo.
Must be nice to live in B.F.E! If I shot a gun in my backyard SWAT would be there in 15min.
That's why I refuse to sell my tacticool Remington 597 .22lr I train with it a lot, every now and then... Take my AR out and run through $50 bucks on a few drills, checking zero, and trying to shoot far as I can (depending on where im at)
My unexpected SHTF skill set? I got a new job. Part of that new job was learning confined space entry, with all the requisite air quality testing, rope work, setting up tag lines and pulleys, etc. Now 2-3 times a week I’m running guys on lines into ovens, pits, tanks, etc. and I can whip together an ingress/egress rope setup pretty quickly. I could set up a bucket line for a well, or move equipment up and down an elevation, and other cool tricks. I learned it for free at work. No, better yet, I got paid to learn it. I am also going to take the free stop the bleed course (that I set them up for), and the next level of confined space entry, the confined space rescue course.
Prep skills are everywhere. Our day to day lives surround us with people with skills we can learn, often for free, that will benefit us in a bad situation. Cops and soldiers aren’t the only people with SHTF skills, and often the skills they have - martial disciplines like gun fighting and taking down aggressors - aren’t applicable or are downright detrimental to a situation.
Learn to cook. Learn to can. Learn to garden. Learn to use rope. Learn how a generator works. Learn how to fix your car. These are skills that will benefit you in the end of times but will also benefit you this week.
Then hit the range with your buds and put some more rounds through your beater rifle and EDC pistol.
I like the cut of your gib 😎
I swear half the reason I watch every single brass fact video is the nostalgic sounding background music lol
Reminds me of Red Dead Redemption 2 music.
@@magaman3048from a game called rim world.
Boredom is the real gateway to Accelerationism
It's sad, but I believe you're correct. A byproduct of being terminally online and generally by extension - terminally lonely. That's not said as an insult to those that fall into that bucket it's just the unfortunate reality for a lot of folks. Community, recreation, and spending some time outside one's comfort zone pretty much cures it.
This is one of the most insightful comments I’ve read in the sea of midwits in this community
Oh no! A rational prepping video!? I thought the internet was where nuance and context goes to die. Seriously, this is what makes your channel stand out and really brings a lot more than just gear reviews and hype. Keep killing it man.
It’s a marathon gentlemen… not a sprint. Steady pace and remember to breathe (as in enjoy life outside of this community 24/7). Brass Facts - keep your head up and know you reach and influence people more than you may realize. A lot of us old bastards tune in and do appreciate the effort you put forth👍🏼
What a great video for how I'm feeling, I've got a ton of the things... guns, ammo, body armor, PC, chest rigs and 782 gear, LPVO's, Red Dots, Holographic w/ Magnifiers, surefire's, modlights, arisaka's, etc... I've got food and water, coms and back ups etc. I'm saving up for Night Vision and I really don't know why. Thanks for the video, honestly at my age of 37 I've been doing this for over 10 years after getting out, and all the things are great but my ability to keep my self in shape and uninjured seems like more and more like my weakest point and that is why this video is helpful, just keep focusing on the basics.
The word "recce" during the intro gave me genuine dejavu. Time to bring it back.
If you have all the fancy tactical gear but none of the food, you’re going to be hungry in SHTF. If you decide to play raider, you’ll likely also end up dead in SHTF
Ironically the raider will have the hardest time getting prepared. Sure all they need is gear guns and ammo but now they have to buy more ammo than a regular prepper, they need to spend more on NV, armor etc and they need to train constantly. Most don’t realize that and are going to get clapped in the first week
@@herpicusmc.derpington2878exactly, law of averages means attrition will get them eventually
I’m going to take up cannibalism when SHTF I think.
@@rifleshooterchannel208 that’s definitely an option. The rule for cannibalism though is you
A) stay away from the head as consumption of human brains can give you a neurodegenerative disease
B) treat it like tough meat that needs slow cooking
@@rifleshooterchannel208 I don't recommend it, there's no way to make it taste good, it's hard to cook and it always gives you the runs
I definitely feel this video man. I’m trying to pivot myself more towards everyday preparedness rather than worrying too much about the boogaloo. I need to focus more on self sustainment for my family but still hone defense skills to protect them. Their safety is my #1 priority.
Appreciate the honest comments about negative media. It's too true. Things are better than what we constantly focus on and obsess about
For me, the key to not burning out was finding ways to make it enjoyable.
Instead of buying a new gun, I'd buy a couple cases of ammo, and take a class. That way i had fun improving my skills, and learning new things to practice.
Instead of buying shelves of canned food and having the tedious task of going through it, organizing it, and rotating it out. I bought livestock, and learned how to farm, i personally think its fun, animals are entertaining.
I always try to find a way to make the tedious tasks of prepping, fun and engaging, as opposed to tedious acts of consumerism..
No matter how much stuff you buy, you'll eventually run out. So setting up a system that is more sustainable long term made more sense, it also keeps me active and keeps my mind off of all the bullshit, because im more concerned with taking care of my animals, and actually training than i am with what new gear there is for me to buy.
"In order to avoid tedious tasks I became a farmer" 😂 bold move!
Why’s why I’ve been practicing growing my own food from seeds I saved from last years harvest. I harvested about 35 lbs of potatoes a few weeks ago which I planted from last years potato harvest. Also getting tons of peppers, letting my beans dry on the stall, squash, corn and my tomatoes for slicing and turning into sauce are just about ripe!
I’d love to get some goats and chickens but that’s learning for the future.
I started Prepping in the late 70's. Been burned out and had to quit adding to the stockpile for a couple years because of income. I have a Mag that will be here on my farm when SHTF. We have most things stocked up. Be safe my friends.
This video is my favorite one yet. Listened to it three times already. Keep up the good work. Love your authenticity.
The best thing I've done in a preparedness sense is blending SHTF/WROL training into activities that don't include going to the range every week. Girlfriend and I need a break? We can go on a vacation with some backpacking. It's dual purpose as you can practice; shelter making, water/food preparation, starting and maintaining a fire, physical fitness with hikes, how and what to pack for sustainment, test clothing/equipment, you can use physical maps and navigation tools to get to your destinations. You can do a ton of things that are more likely to keep you alive compared to getting the newest nylon kit and it's not redundant and boring or an area where you can get complacent. Prepping can't be your entire life nor should it hold you from living your life peacefully, but you can blend it into your day to day and after a time start to not realize it.
The music at the end really legitimized everything in the video. Can't have a shtf video without that twangy guitar 😂
Gotta say, I really like this more rambly format of videos. Keep up the great work.
I'm in my mid-40's, a bit older than most of you are, and I've been into survivalism/SHTF/etc since I was a teenager, and I watched my city catch on fire after some cops got acquitted for beating some dude who was high on crack. I've been through all the vacillations, survivalism, prepping, bushcrafting, and I've burned out on all of them variously. The balance I found, is that having guns, shooting competitions, offroading, camping as hobbies, and then living a sustainable lifestyle, where you learn to grow much of what you eat, develop relationships with farmers, butchers, and ranchers in your wider geographic area, and use guns, offroading, animals and other things as a means of forming and keeping a community is the best balance.
Great vid, I really tend to enjoy the philosophy vids over gear, unless it's philosophy of gear, which tends to be more useful than a very specific review of a thing I will never buy.
This is like the BF version of the Chrisky rants, my favorite style
One thing you said that I never heard anyone else ever say, and grounded me to see this as a pitfall was when you said in one of your videos “don’t prepare for a theoretical collapse and then cause a localized collapse from bankruptcy” or something akin
I just had my 4 nieces come over to help me with cataloging six 27 gallon totes full of Peak Refuel and six 5 gallon totes full of AR parts etc while doing some SERIOUS spring cleaning.
It took us three flipping days…yeah I’m burned out too.
I love your content, wish you did the podcast more often!!!
My parents did the whole Y2K thing and bought a ton of canned goods, and realized that it was cheaper to buy things you eat every day in bulk every year when the local store has a canned food sale and a "meat bonanza!" So now they always have a years worth of food (two years worth after the sale). Now I'm working on other aspects. Everyone needs a hobby i guess.
I enjoyed this format!
I've tried to stick by the rule of thumb that I think came from The Survival Podcast that if you're spending a bunch of time and money on something preparing for a disaster it should make your life better even if nothing goes wrong.
I’m 74 and I’m still guilty of chasing gear! I was content with a medium powered optic and an a red dot for years. Then the LPVO became the hot ticket so I got the recommended Primary Arms SLX 1-6. Used it for a while and decided I didn’t like the weight and footprint. Heard you guys reviewing the prism optics so I ordered one of those in 5X (haven’t gotten it yet). Keep up the good work.
You right about the news. Growing up in the 90s before 24 hour news, they seemed to actually have some good stories once in a while.
the opening of the iraq war was the last good era journalism
I did appreciate this video, especially your commentary on the kind of prepper fear economy - keeping people agitated and afraid. It would be great to see videos on basic medical and survival skills for the prepared citizen.
I'm guilty of this too, but like you were alluding to, we want to focus WAY too much on our rifle, our attachments, our ammunition. If it truly is going to be a SHTF, WROL, blah blah blah, one of the BIGGEST things is going to be health/physical and mental shape, speaking/leadership/people skills, and general SKILLS that small communities and units will absolutely NEED to survive. MOST everyday people are going to be unprepared and looking for people to link up with to survive. EVERY community will need a caregiver/doctor, builders, planners, mechanics, hunters, gatherers, skilled laborers, and overall strong-willed people! We can't let our weapons and food supplies become our identity. I'm good with tools and can weld/repair/build things, know basic car/motorcycle maintenance, and have a myriad of other skills I could bring to a community and being a distance runner I could be molded to become a half decent scout/messenger, etc. Someday soon, I'm hoping to be able to afford a home with some land and I'll learn to grow a vegetable garden....and have my own range haha....and to add....I did sell my LPVO...not because I hopped on the "Guntubers are ditching the LPVO now so I will too!", but because I found the 3x prism is simple, robust, lighter-weight, and the perfect "all-around" optic for my 16" rifle. Great video Brass Facts!
Practical rant videos are my favorite.
Regarding doing things with your gear to keep you interested: I find that most of the tactical bros I hang out with/meet at ranges have a vague intention of getting into hunting, but never actually take the plunge and do it. I think everyone who cares about SHTF preparedness should have experience hunting, shooting, cleaning, and butchering their own large game animals. If you have any rifle caliber firearm and a ruck with sustainment gear, you basically already have everything you need, and you'll learn a lot about your kit (and fitness levels) by getting out, backcountry camping, and tracking down some deer on BLM land.
This was a fantastic video. Great message. I recommend people channel some of this energy into physical fitness. Everyone should be lifting weights and doing cardio. If you have a $10,000 load out but get winded going up a flight of stairs, you need to get your priorities straight. We prepare to survive, nothing improves our chance of survival like physical fitness.
I’ve been pretty burned out. I’m doing a little better now, I scheduled a class and that lit a fire again. I like the long tone of the video. I’ve recently put together a long term plan for the purchasing part and am training as I go. Very timely video.
flexing on me with that thumbnail. I'm only a month or 2 away from getting mine!
in my opinion, the two most important things are your mindset and community. regardless of location and material items you have stashed away, those two things (how you act and who you interact with) increase your odds of surviving exponentially more than having quick split times or 10 years worth of freeze dried meals.
I used to be way too into it and made everything I did about being ready. And then I realized I was missing out on actually living along the way. So I let myself enjoy things while being responsible and setting some things aside rather than “nope can’t spend any money of any kind until I have my house 100% backed up with redundant off grid power sources and enough food for my grandchildren to eat without going to a store”.
I’m also working on moving from “store everything” to “store some, but the real secret is renewable food”. Working on chicken farming and gardening to try and supplement what we need and that’s something that can help us “now” as well as “some day when” like the other stored goods are
Homesteading is graduating
@@KrKr_FLI’m not 100% reliant solely on what I’m growing but it’s a good supplement and provides some backup for sure
I've recently updated my land nav equipment. One step at a time. Always moving forward. Thanks for the share!!
I approached survival and prepping from a different perspective than you mentioned. Priority is always skill development and increasing capability rather than purchasing our way out of the problem. Homesteading and home manufacture/repair should be a major skill development area but are ignored on social media, especially by those presenting "high-quality imagery." I also discussed that people should be able to utilize those of poor health in their survival efforts because no doing so excludes the vast majority of available people. Lastly I see no large channels covering expedient or improvised construction methods like those I cover in depth due to lack of revenue produced by that subject area.
I have watch 3 of your videos back to back. This is awesome and I love the style and the commentary!
6:50 thats why disconnecting from media and social media has made me muuuch happier
Lol this had been a good therapy session. I do the “and then I’m done” and “constant gear upgrade” crap to a fault. lol.
I think another reason for "burnout" is some of us probably just out grew the need to be prepared and took a pause to focus on other interests and/or life events.
Speaking for myself here between 2020 and 2023 I was heavily invested in tactical/preparedness/ training etc. After feeling adequately proficient enough with my CCW and go to rifle and relatively content with the current state of my setup, I decided to take a pause. Between that my kids being home for summer break, taking care of my wife after surgery and having acquired a PS5, I realized that once i do decide to dive back in headfirst into tactical preparedness, things will be relatively new and interesting once again
well i simply incorporated the lifestyle into the daily life. I started a homestead, and now moving to a better located one... shooting is important but not end all ... and I agree on your gear ideas, I have a mag (group) setup ...
That closing scene was perfectly relaxing 😁
This video solidifies and motivates my will to prepare. Everything from finances (debt/savings), building a team, and training with the equipment that I do have and more importantly appreciate the process and as nutnfancy says “don’t hasten the day”.
We need more of this down to earth “rants” I think. Helps level the head out
I’ve been in the game for around 15 years and burnout is a big deal. I stopped constantly chasing the newest gear and started focusing on training and fitness while ago and it helps.
The SHTF on May 28th 2016. Y’all have actually done pretty good making it this far. Good job guys!
I enjoyed the format. Your rambles are pretty good. Agree with all your points. I think recognizing the challenges of prepping makes one more likely to accept that it’s part of the process and not a reason to give up.
Every new year I like to set a goal or two and aim to accomplish it. That goal doesn't have to be directly preparedness related. It can be something like taking a leadership class or joining a community garden. If you improve your self and set realistic goals your ahead of 99% of folks who are just maxing out there credit cards on the next big prep.
The rambles are my favorite videos.
I like your videos alot. I always come away at the end with a lot to think about, and a reminder to keep preps realistic, within my budget, and consistent.
He's saying what we are all thinking/feeling thank you
I’ve been prepping for years now and it’s panned out on numerous occasions with natural disasters and bad storms because I live in the extreme climate of ND, 2020 reinforced this as well and showed me areas that I should work on. I moved to the country and started homesteading. I’m very well set in the firearms, support, logistics department but I still want more. I’m focusing more on self sustainability in the food and energy department these days but yeah it’s better to figure out your priorities and slowly chip away at procurement over time so that you don’t run out of money and motivation. If you can build community and to continually train is also a very important skill. Skills beat gear too because if you don’t know how to use your gear or see where it’s flaws lay then you will be worse off.
I definitely like this style as a change up... can also relate lol
Been going through major burnout with prepping, the internet can really help you mindfuck yourself into a box of "if i don't buy the right thing im gonna die", " this PSA is gonna get me killed", "my LPVO is trash" and you're constantly chasing optimals that don't really apply at a less than professional skill level and use case. I've shifted my focus 100% to fitness over gear just because it is far more practical and benefits virtually every aspect of life. I feel it should be the first focus of anyone serious about prepping but let's be honest, it's just not as sexy as buying some new bullshit you'll probably never use. Rambling aside, I enjoy this format.
favorite content on the tube. these vids could be 4 hrs long an i'd be here for it.
Brassfacts Friday 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Our guberment agencies from the FDA, to the Postal Service, hell even IRS are all well armed and trained. USDA has tac teams! It is our duty as Dirty Civilians to be ready to liquidate that Liberty Tree! Keep it Tight Bhole!💪🏻🤙🏼
The survival supplies I need is your intro music so I can relax
Packs, I feel you. I have to stop myself from doing that.
I willll neeeeverr stopp!!! (I'll totally stop after I get this next bag)
@@BrassFacts LOL. This video came up while I was looking for a medium Molle 2 backpack.
Keep it coming! Great info and perspective. I too have never been there nor done that. Your videos give me are thought provoking and make me think about my current theoretical LARP.
Definitely been feeling burned out too man i appreciated this video
The hardest part I’m finding is managing resources to grow as a member of society (build a house, finish school, maintaining social presence) and also finding resources to prep.
Competition shooting and hunting help keep me from burnout it helps to test out gear and its great way to stay in shape
The military really hits on SMART goals (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound) and I really feel that this video really puts into perspective that our prep goals get burned out because they lack the time bound portion. We get burned out because we keep moving the goal posts and never let the dopamine hit come from actually succeeding.
solution. In my experience, the best things to do are to take a step back and start recording data on... well anything. Preps: lbs of various foods, round counts, days of clean water... working out: record your lifts, weights, reps, run times... I think you get the picture. either way, what this does is it puts into perspective how far youve come, or gives you a starting point to measure progress later. Sometimes its hard to see the forest through the trees. Love you guys. and just get out there and do it.
Freakin brass facts 😎
I actually elected to take the summer off because I'm so burned out on the tactical grind. Not just the financial aspect of it, but the social aspect of it. Traveling around my state doing classes and range days with different people, sitting on various discords, participating in the tactical pages on facebook has burned me out mostly because of the toxicity of the people in the environment. I hate to say it, but the worst part about gun people is gun people.
I appreciate you putting this video out. I'm in the processes of trying to create a purchasing plan and budget for my prepping, and it's discouraging to see most of the drip 4+ years down the road.
This is gold. I hope this becomes your most popular video. This is exactly what people need to hear. I dont mean normies, I mean us
Honestly best thing to see right now been all over with overthinking if I wanna change optics I just got a razor a month ago and then started debating maybe red dot and magnifier and just being all over instead of spending more time with it and actually getting to learn it
3 years in the firearms game, im blessed where i can go to range atleast once a week, have definitely spent a shitload finding new shit, havent burned up other than my cash. Appreciate the topic
December 2019 we prepped hard for what we thought was going to be a crazy deadly bio weapon escape. But we made sure to buy things we would eat so we got some selves and rotate with normal shopping so that we have a stock but it's not going to go bad just sitting there. Looking at you freeze dried meals😂
SHTF also means your home may be compromise because you alone cannot protect it entirely depending on how large it is be it a hour or an apartment. You need a small army with round the clock rotation of security, which means food, water to feed them and weapons to arm them.
It is always best to prepare for the possibility of abandoning your home and have a go back with essentials to take with you so you can move quickly and live somewhere else, so you cannot carry all your guns and ammo with you. You need a basic loadout that will not slow you down on top of survival gear
That’s why I say take as much as you can, salvage what you can, but if you can take you and it’s mobility liability then don’t take it, most people are gonna resort to the woods anyways but then again the other half will be marching to Washington for answers, tbh brother I think 2025 or 2028 but we can’t let them divide us, we gotta stick together Frfr, I don’t have no true enemy really but I won’t let some people in some office who I don’t know take away what was given to us way before 9/11 I say that because before that event our country was chilling and makin so so so much money and after that it all went to military and shadow governments within ours, if we get into this we in it for the long run but the goal has to be common for all and if we gonna make that change we gotta make it all for the better and future of the nation or we are doomed and I don’t want that for none of the kids, I’ll die fighting before they experience anything we have in past 20 years, but I’m with you and god bless
@@greenghost5009 Also the best thing to do is to form connections. Make friends and see if they like the whole prepareness idea. Go shooting together, get basic training on things like first aid. See who knows how to fix cars, electricians, plumbers. These are skills that are useful when the world goes to shit because the end of the world needs handymen. Learn how to make a garden to have some extra because food will be scarce. Start a small chicken farm. Learn how to hunt squirrels and other small critters.
Of course a LOT of us live in suburbs and near the city so "woods" don't actually exist and really if you have enough people in your group, you don't actually need to abandon your homes.
@@Excalibur01 brother if I could highlight your comment I would, communication is key and shit man who knows you might literally run into your best friend around times like this and that’s true, I would set up meetings for overall preparedness and the depths of it, most likely neighborhoods will stick together and watch from the entrances and back entrances and spots to where we think people would sneak in, hopefully someone got dirt bikes and banshees we can use to go into the city and see what’s going on, but to those who don’t do it need to get out and train and make friends at the gun range and network with each other and from that something solid will build
Good stuff man. I go thru waves of being burnt out with gun stuff and it’s helpful to take a step back and focus on other areas.
The community needs a lot more of this type of content. Great vid.
Gardening. Because of prepping, I started gardening. Veteran, former bodybuilder, gun nut. Now stopping to ask little old ladies if the trellis panels at the road side are free to take, because I want them to run my peas up. But, the joy I find in growing and eat exotic varieties of food is second only to competition shooting, And the dream of what I would do if I ever did become that local warlord we all dream of being when SHTF. But, even that is something I get burnt out on. Things go wrong. Cost/return issues. It can get you down. But, it's still worth doing. Just like prepping.
I removed all my sent glands so the zombies can't smell me. Tequilla saves lives.
@brassFacts I feel personally attacked on the impulse buying and lateral upgrades 😂
Thanks man. I needed that reminder…
Good video. I don’t mind your rants as long as they continue providing good information.
Physical fitness. Not just getting into shape (which is the cheapest yet most beneficial aspect of prepping).
That tooth that's been hurting you? Get your ass to the dentist
Routine checkups, up to date vaccinations (not talking covid, actual vaccinations like smallpox, measles, etc)
Your side grade comment was spot on. Good point.
The side-upgrade comment gave me flash-back tremors from Diablo IV.
Needed to hear this. I push through the fatigue because facts. But I need to get serious too
Just wandered back to this video to let you know that I personally do enjoy this style, especially about some more nuanced topics like general prepping and your other videos like team building and such.
Ammo! Ammo Ammo Ammmmmooo! You need pallets of it. You’ll never have enough.
Great talk. You hit the nail on the head with prepping is giving you/your family/community greater odds at surviving whatever the future holds. I find myself bouncing between gun/gear/fieldcraft to “I can stack a bit more food and firewood for this winter” and what tools and skills would be nice to have if the lights don’t ever come back on.
This is a good video. Thanks for your thoughts. Looking forward to part 2.